Tag: vegetation

I thought perhaps you’d changed your mind.
And you know it. You can’t kid me.
During the day lean cats napped in the dense shade.
The only thing she could do was to go away and never come back.
There wasn’t anything to work out.
Maybe we can work out something.
Right now she couldn’t even think straight, couldn’t even see straight.
She polished one pane of glass over and over.
It was so deadly quiet.
There were so many things she hadn’t said to him.
Forget it as though it had never occurred.
It had never existed anywhere but in her own mind.
What makes you think something happened?
She waited for his answer, leaning toward him.
He looked at it in surprise.
Was he in love with her? He examined his feeling about her with care.
I understand better than you think.
I got as much right here as you.
When she wasn’t there, he was filled with a sense of loss.
Nobody knows where he went.
This world was one of great contrasts, she thought.
He was filled with a vast uneasiness.
Perhaps that was one way of fighting back.
But she really didn’t know what it was.
It was like having the earth suddenly open up.
Those who go looking are on a fool’s errand.
There is a muscular tightness in his back and neck.
He is no stranger to self-pity.
Run and get a policeman, I’ll stay here and make sure he doesn’t get away.
I don’t care about all that now.
It just didn’t add up.
He knew how the world worked.